Wiktionary
vb. to catch fire suddenly and unexpectedly
Usage examples of "burst into flame".
Instantly the bale of pine needles burst into flame and the catapult released.
Arrows that flashed toward her burst into flame, their ashes raining onto the carnage below.
The shield around them burst into flame, engulfing the tytan's hands.
Above all, he could feel her eyes almost burning through his skin like a pair of sunray glasses held steady above shavings, to make them scorch and smoke and at last burst into flame.
For a mere moment, the pod leader thought the oily air itself might burst into flame.
They tell of balls of fire flying through the air, causing fields to burst into flame.
Its eyes burst into flame and smoke that trailed from dark sockets and loosely flapping jaws.
As soon as a sizable strip was dragged loose the exposed lagging below immediately burst into flame reaching the height of a man's head, throwing into sharp relief weird masked figures leaping backward to avoid being scorched by the flames.
The red canister burst into flame on its way to the ground and landed there in a crumpled, smoking lump.
All over the Vale, Priests of the Serpent stiffened, screamed, and their heads burst into flame.